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Historical Event on 7/7/1962

94 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/15/1794Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away.
2/17/1993Rani Gaidinliu, freedom fighter, social reformer and political leader, died at her native village in Manipur. The British army made a surprise attack on her position and captured her. On 17th October, 1932, Pandit Nehru once wrote ""A day will come when India will remember her and cherishe her"".
10/17/1920Bhartiya Communist Party was formed at Tashkent with seven members including M.N. Roy, Birendra Chattopadhyay and Abani Mukherji.
6/22/1975National Emergency was declared and censorship introduced.
3/4/1924Shyam Lal Gupt 'Parshad' wrote the song 'Jhanda Ooncha Rahe Hamara'.
3/30/1992Satyajit Ray received the honorary Oscar award..
10/23/1898Khandubhai K. Desai, politician and social reformer, was born at Bulsar in Gujarat.
5/10/1927Nayantara Sahgal, famous writer and social reformer, was born.
5/8/1930Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest.
2/1/1922Gandhiji gives notice to the Viceroy Lord Reading during Bardoli movement to inform him that he was intensifying his action and non-cooperation was to be escalated to Civil Disobedience.